Ahead of Nintendo's E3 video presentation on Tuesday, an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto has emerged, lifting the veil on three Wii U projects set to be officially announced today. Time Magazine spoke to the Nintendo design legend ahead of E3, where he confirmed his work on a brand new Star Fox video game that revolves entirely around the Wii U's screen-enabled GamePad.

According to the report, Star Fox for Wii U, which has been in development since the Wii era, will include the usual Arwing and tank modes—oh yeah, you'll do a barrel roll—along with a "helicopter-like craft" that requires two players to operate, one of whom will control a dangling helper cannon that can either gather items or attack foes. These craft will require moving the motion-sensitive GamePad while angling control sticks at the same time.

The other two projects, clearly labeled as "experimental," have been given codenames Project Giant Robot and Project Guard. The former will turn players into, you know, giant robots and will use motion sensors to react to players' real-life movements while they get into robo-fisticuffs. The latter has been described as a sort of tower defense game that requires touching the Wii U GamePad's screen to place and switch between security cameras and attack invaders of a base, while the main TV screen will display the base as a whole.

The games in question are all quite far out from launch; Star Fox is "at least a year away." We'll have more on these and other announcements from Nintendo's online-only E3 press event.

Update: Nintendo issued a press release confirming details about Miyamoto's three Wii U projects, confirming that all of them are scheduled for release sometime in 2015. Clarifying the motion-control details of Star Fox ("working title"), Nintendo said the game will "turn the Wii U GamePad into the view from the cockpit of Fox McCloud’s Arwing fighter. While the TV shows the perspective from behind the Arwing, players can also use the gyro sensors of the GamePad to intuitively and independently target enemies."